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Clinical meaning of the Keane PTSD scale
Author(s) -
Moody David R.,
Kish George B.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198907)45:4<542::aid-jclp2270450407>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - psychology , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , clinical psychology , scale (ratio) , feeling , psychometrics , meaning (existential) , population , personality test , psychological testing , test validity , psychiatry , developmental psychology , personality , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , physics , environmental health , quantum mechanics
A correlational study that included 82 male inpatient alcoholics was conducted to determine the clinical meaning of the Keane PTSD Scale of the MMPI. The PTSD Scale was correlated with the variables of the Shipley Institute of Living Scale, the Life Purpose Questionnaire, the Existential Depression Test, and the standard MMPI measures, plus the A, R, Es and MacAndrew Scales. The pattern of correlations suggested that the PTSD scale measures general psychological maladjustment and dysphoric feelings rather than any specifiable syndrome. The strong correlation with the Welch A, which measures a general level of maladjustment, suggests that the PTSD and Welch A scales are measuring the same factor. The PTSD scale, therefore, appears to provide very little information about this population beyond that available from the overall clinical profile and the Welch A scale.